KMA Sullivan is the author of inclined to riot (forthcoming from Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018) and Necessary Fire, winner of the St Lawrence Book Award (Black Lawrence Press, 2015). Her poetry and essays have appeared in Boston Review, Southern Humanities Review, The Rumpus, Gertrude, diode, and elsewhere. She is the coeditor in chief of Vinyl and the publisher at YesYes Books.